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1,000 coils of fear : a novel
- Title
- 1,000 coils of fear : a novel / Olivia Wenzel ; translated from the German by Priscilla Layne.
- Author
- Wenzel, Olivia, 1985-
- Publication
- New York : Catapult, 2022.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Layne, Priscilla
- Description
- 279 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- ''I have more privilege than any person in my family. And I'm still screwed." From award-winning author Olivia Wenzel comes a captivating and unsettling literary debut about race, politics, feminism, motherhood, nationality and enduring love. A young woman attends a play about the Berlin Wall coming down and is the only Black person in the audience. She is sitting with her boyfriend by a bathing lake and four neo-Nazis show up. In New York, she witnesses Trump's election victory in a strange hotel room and later awakes to panicked messages from friends. Engaging in a witty question and answer with herself, the narrator looks at our rapidly changing times and tells the story of her family: her mother, who was a punk in East Germany and never had the freedom she dreamed of and her absent Angolan father. But in the background of everything is the memory of her twin brother, who died when they were nineteen. Emotional and funny, Olivia Wenzel writes about loneliness and finding joy in life within the roles that society assigns you. 1000 Coils of Fear is a highly original novel both powerfully poetic and full of surprises.
- Uniform Title
- 1000 Serpentinen Angst. English
- Alternative Title
- 1000 Serpentinen Angst.
- One thousand coils of fear
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Note
- "First published in Germany in 2020 by S. Fischer Verlag"--Title page verso.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the original German.
- Call Number
- Sc D 22-828
- ISBN
- 9781646220502
- 1646220501
- LCCN
- 2021940579
- OCLC
- 1322193707
- Author
- Wenzel, Olivia, 1985- author.
- Title
- 1,000 coils of fear : a novel / Olivia Wenzel ; translated from the German by Priscilla Layne.
- Publisher
- New York : Catapult, 2022.
- Edition
- First Catapult edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the original German.
- Added Author
- Layne, Priscilla, translator.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 22-828